Having trouble with blank "index" page

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Having trouble with blank "index" page

I've published my site to a folder and transfered it succefully to my webhost. The only problem is that it shows up blank. I think because the index.html is blank when I open it on my harddrive to see the contents. I don't know html well enough to input the correct code to redirect from the webaddress people type in to the aboutme page I want them to see first.

I thought the program iWeb would write the index for me.

Any thoughts/suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

imac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 1, 2006 5:03 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Mar 1, 2006 5:30 PM in response to iwebber

It would be a lot easier to help if you would provide a url, so people can see what is happening.

Normally when you publish to your local drive, you get a folder with same name as the site name inside iWeb, plus and index.html file. Uploading both should give you a working web site. It is not likely that any index.html files are really blank. You need to open them with a text editor, not a browser.

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gji

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Apr 22, 2006 10:24 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

I am having the same issue. Published to folder and then to my yahoo hosting and the index page does not instantly redirect to the home page as expected?
On a mac it works just fine but PC browser shows blank page. Want this to be universal web access of course. Any help would be appreciated. Oh and if you wonder through the site there is nudity so be warned.

http://garryirvine.com = fine on mac not on PC browser(blank)
http://garryirvine.com/index.html worls on both. (redirects to home page from iweb project as expected [same for http://garryirvine.com/Home.html)

The index page for me is not blank on my server it has the following(without "'s):
"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title></title><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url= Home.html" /></head><body></body></html>"

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gji

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Apr 22, 2006 10:43 PM in response to gji

So now the issue is gone. So I am guessing it took a bit for the cache or something werid and for me unknown (web scares me).
Works now in IE/firefox and safari.
Guess force page reload is a good idea.

oh and I used cyberduck to sync the folders in my published folder to my FTP site and it works like a charm. .mac begone! 😉

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